HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Football bettors were closely monitoring the Florida weather forecasts this week in deciding how it might affect Super Bowl LV on Sunday night in Tampa – just as Gulfstream Park horsemen and horseplayers do on a regular basis. The chances of rain were fairly high on both Florida coasts Sunday, which had trainer Armando De La Cerda wondering whether Karakatsie, the promising filly he trains for Chad Schumer and Stephen Screnci, will be racing on the Gulfstream turf or dirt. Karakatsie is one of eight 3-year-old fillies in a $47,000, first-level allowance serving as the featured seventh of 11 races on a card that gets an early start (12:40 p.m. Eastern) so as to finish early enough (5:48) to accommodate Super Bowl kickoff (6:30). “I think we will be okay either way,” De La Cerda said. “She is bred for the turf, but she has worked very well on the dirt, too.” Karakatsie, by Karakontie, will have leading jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard in the 1 1/16-mile race scheduled for turf. If it has to be moved to the main track, it will be a “short stretch” race to the first wire. Karakatsie has just two prior starts – a Dec. 5 debut win and a sixth-place finish in the Jan. 2 Ginger Brew on the Gulfstream turf. :: Enhance your handicapping with DRF’s Gulfstream Park Clocker Report “She’s a very nice filly, a little hyper,” said De La Cerda, who moved his year-round base of operations from Chicago to Florida in fall 2016. “But she is young, and I like her a lot. She is training very good and is definitely ready for this.” Probably the top threat to Karakatsie on turf is Jouster, who earned a field-high 86 Beyer Speed Figure in a last-out maiden romp over the local turf course for Todd Pletcher. If the rains come, Gone to Cabo, the lone main-track designate, figures as a wire-to-wire threat from post 1. Karakatsie hasn’t yet had a chance to accomplish some of the remarkable things that De La Cerda’s stable star Cheermeister did here last winter. Cheermeister won three turf stakes – the Wait a While, the Grade 3 Sweetest Chant, and the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride – before being defeated by a neck in a fourth, the Sanibel Island. The speedy 4-year-old filly has not raced since late July and shows no recent works. “Cheermeister is back galloping and doing well,” De La Cerda said. “She was not injured or anything. I just thought she needed a little time off.” The nominal feature is part of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 (races 6-11) that was expected to have a pool guarantee of about $1 million, assuming the jackpot wasn’t swept by a unique winner Friday or Saturday. The Rainbow 6 pool has built steadily since last being subject to a forceout Jan. 24. After Sunday, Gulfstream goes dark for two days before another five-day week starts Wednesday. The highlights of the coming weekend are a pair of $100,000 races for older horses, the Grade 3 Gulfstream Park Sprint and the Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint, both on Saturday. Unlike in prior years, there will be no racing here on the Presidents Day holiday (Monday, Feb. 15).